Yoelle Maarek

Yoelle Maarek is a Franco-Israeli computer scientist. She is the Chief Researcher of AI/IR for the Technology Innovation Institute. Maarek is a researcher in the field of AI and information retrieval. She is a former Vice President of Science and Research at Amazon, responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research and a former Vice President of Research, at Yahoo! Labs, where she led several labs and the area of Mail Search among others. Maarek was a Director of Engineering at Google and the first engineering hire of Google Israel, where she established the company's development center in Haifa in 2006. At Google, her team launched in 2008 Google Suggest worldwide on Google homepage as well as in Youtube soon after. She is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of US National Academy of Engineering and of the SIGIR Academy.